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Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Business and Economy Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy
Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Business and Economy "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Business and Economy
We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Business and Economy Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Business and Economy
Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Business and Economy Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Business and Economy
I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Business and Economy I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Business and Economy
Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Business and Economy "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Business and Economy
He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Business and Economy The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Business and Economy
Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Business and Economy "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Business and Economy
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Business and Economy It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Business and Economy
The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Business and Economy The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Business and Economy
Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Business and Economy I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Business and Economy
